most adorable and Paul was the genious and talent behind it all. I read the biography The Beatles by Bob Spitz, which I highly recommend. I thought I knew everything about the Beatles there was to know, until I read this book (I was a hard core Beatle-maniac in High School). I am now in awe of Paul McCartney.

I was hardcore in jr. high too. We got free tickets the night before the 1965 Detroit Olympia Stadium performance. My girlfriend's sister's boyfriend's father was an exec for General Motors. Apparently, this man was trying to impress his son, but my girlfriend's sister and her boyfriend were 19 and they considered themselves too cool for the Beatles. They said they were sorry that they were in the back, Row "Y," but at least they were on the floor of the Stadium. The next day we found out........Row "Z" was on the sides of the stage and row "Y" was right in the front. I watched Paul's foot kick a marshmallow onto the floor and when the show was over, the ushers and guards let us go up and collect souvenirs. We got some broken Ringo sticks, and I got that marshmallow.

band biography as there is going to be. It was clear that John was the original motive force behind the band and that he had some resentments about Paul becoming the dominant member, conceptually and musically speaking, around the time of Sgt. Pepper. But Paul ultimately needed John's cynical and sarcastic edge to moderate his tendency towards pop cliches to bring out his best just as John needed Paul's impeccable gifts for melody and arrangement to polish and refine his work and bring out his best.

The odd thing about the Beatles is that George was himself so talented that he would have been the unquestioned superstar in any other band of the era save the Rolling Stones.

but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong."John Lennon

I'm not technically very good, but I can make it fucking howl and move. I was rhythm guitarist, and it's an important job.

The Beatles were the sum of all the parts including George Martian and Brain Epstein all of them were gifted and hugely talented ...including Richard Starkey (Ringo) who was working w/ three different bands before he joined the Beatles.

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